Everything ends in this world so it appears.
Everything has a beginning a middle and an end.
But you are not that, you have nothing to do with that picture.
You are immortal, you are nirvana.
You must begin today to stop judging by appearances.
The more you begin to feel this the less you talk. For what is talking all about. Except to talk about the world and people and things.
Think how long you've been talking since you were born.
You started with dada, mama and you expanded your vocabulary.
You thought you were doing something great, you've wasted your time.
The more words you know the larger the ego.
The less words you know the closer you are to the Self.
What has the Self to say, to whom shall it talk to, itself?
The Self is self-contained consciousness.
Aware of itself, itself is omnipresence.
So to whom shall it talk to, itself?
It is perfect bliss consciousness.
There need be no words, just a look, a touch, a glance is all you have to do.
Yet you say, "How can I do this? I work for a living, I have to eat, I have to earn my bread and butter, I have to talk."
Don't worry about details. If you dive within yourself and you spend most of your time thinking about the I am, practicing self-inquiry, the details will work themselves out.
You must not believe that it is up to you to work out all the details of life.
There is a higher power that knows where the appearance of your body is supposed to be and what work it's supposed to do.
Trust that power.
You will find out one day that the power is none other ... is you.
That power is your Self. But until then trust the power.
I like to call this power, "The current that knows the way."
It's a beautiful power, it only knows love.
It wants you to become a living embodiment of love.
It wants you to merge with itself.
Yet as long as you identify with the world you can never know reality.
As long as you identify with your personal I, by always voicing what I feel, I feel hurt, I feel angry, I feel sick, I feel depressed, I feel happy because somebody gave me something, I feel good because I'm getting my own way.
That I has got to go. The whole world, the whole universe, people places and things are attached to the I.
If you follow the I to the source the whole universe will disappear.
And the question arises, "Then what?
If the universe disappears will I be in outer space? Will I be in a fog?"
It's a paradox. The universe disappears, yet you exist in the universe.
Your body will continue going about its business but you will not be identifying with your body any longer.
You will not even feel that you are in the body.
But you will feel the body is in you. You will feel like a gigantic screen. Where all the items of this earth, trees, plants, flowers, bugs, murderers, lovers are all superimposed on the screen. They are on the screen and you are the screen. The screen is not in them.
- Robert Adams
The Self is self-contained consciousness.
Aware of itself, itself is omnipresence.
So to whom shall it talk to, itself?
It is perfect bliss consciousness.
There need be no words, just a look, a touch, a glance is all you have to do.
Yet you say, "How can I do this? I work for a living, I have to eat, I have to earn my bread and butter, I have to talk."
Don't worry about details. If you dive within yourself and you spend most of your time thinking about the I am, practicing self-inquiry, the details will work themselves out.
You must not believe that it is up to you to work out all the details of life.
There is a higher power that knows where the appearance of your body is supposed to be and what work it's supposed to do.
Trust that power.
You will find out one day that the power is none other ... is you.
That power is your Self. But until then trust the power.
I like to call this power, "The current that knows the way."
It's a beautiful power, it only knows love.
It wants you to become a living embodiment of love.
It wants you to merge with itself.
Yet as long as you identify with the world you can never know reality.
As long as you identify with your personal I, by always voicing what I feel, I feel hurt, I feel angry, I feel sick, I feel depressed, I feel happy because somebody gave me something, I feel good because I'm getting my own way.
That I has got to go. The whole world, the whole universe, people places and things are attached to the I.
If you follow the I to the source the whole universe will disappear.
And the question arises, "Then what?
If the universe disappears will I be in outer space? Will I be in a fog?"
It's a paradox. The universe disappears, yet you exist in the universe.
Your body will continue going about its business but you will not be identifying with your body any longer.
You will not even feel that you are in the body.
But you will feel the body is in you. You will feel like a gigantic screen. Where all the items of this earth, trees, plants, flowers, bugs, murderers, lovers are all superimposed on the screen. They are on the screen and you are the screen. The screen is not in them.
- Robert Adams
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